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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-03-16 11:51:08 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-03-16 11:51:08 -0700
commit271ecc5253e2b317d729d366560789cd7f93836c (patch)
treed3a60bc4dfa8245ff934f357f2367db76b59e7cf /scripts/checkpatch.pl
parentaa6865d836418eb2ba888a4cb1318a28e9aa2e0c (diff)
parent63c06227a22b098a3849c5c99e836aea161ca0d7 (diff)
downloadlinux-271ecc5253e2b317d729d366560789cd7f93836c.tar.gz
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:

 - some misc things

 - ofs2 updates

 - about half of MM

 - checkpatch updates

 - autofs4 update

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (120 commits)
  autofs4: fix string.h include in auto_dev-ioctl.h
  autofs4: use pr_xxx() macros directly for logging
  autofs4: change log print macros to not insert newline
  autofs4: make autofs log prints consistent
  autofs4: fix some white space errors
  autofs4: fix invalid ioctl return in autofs4_root_ioctl_unlocked()
  autofs4: fix coding style line length in autofs4_wait()
  autofs4: fix coding style problem in autofs4_get_set_timeout()
  autofs4: coding style fixes
  autofs: show pipe inode in mount options
  kallsyms: add support for relative offsets in kallsyms address table
  kallsyms: don't overload absolute symbol type for percpu symbols
  x86: kallsyms: disable absolute percpu symbols on !SMP
  checkpatch: fix another left brace warning
  checkpatch: improve UNSPECIFIED_INT test for bare signed/unsigned uses
  checkpatch: warn on bare unsigned or signed declarations without int
  checkpatch: exclude asm volatile from complex macro check
  mm: memcontrol: drop unnecessary lru locking from mem_cgroup_migrate()
  mm: migrate: consolidate mem_cgroup_migrate() calls
  mm/compaction: speed up pageblock_pfn_to_page() when zone is contiguous
  ...
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl29
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 874132b26d23..d574d13ba963 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3240,6 +3240,30 @@ sub process {
 #ignore lines not being added
 		next if ($line =~ /^[^\+]/);
 
+# check for declarations of signed or unsigned without int
+		while ($line =~ m{($Declare)\s*(?!char\b|short\b|int\b|long\b)\s*($Ident)?\s*[=,;\[\)\(]}g) {
+			my $type = $1;
+			my $var = $2;
+			$var = "" if (!defined $var);
+			if ($type =~ /^(?:(?:$Storage|$Inline|$Attribute)\s+)*((?:un)?signed)((?:\s*\*)*)\s*$/) {
+				my $sign = $1;
+				my $pointer = $2;
+
+				$pointer = "" if (!defined $pointer);
+
+				if (WARN("UNSPECIFIED_INT",
+					 "Prefer '" . trim($sign) . " int" . rtrim($pointer) . "' to bare use of '$sign" . rtrim($pointer) . "'\n" . $herecurr) &&
+				    $fix) {
+					my $decl = trim($sign) . " int ";
+					my $comp_pointer = $pointer;
+					$comp_pointer =~ s/\s//g;
+					$decl .= $comp_pointer;
+					$decl = rtrim($decl) if ($var eq "");
+					$fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s@\b$sign\s*\Q$pointer\E\s*$var\b@$decl$var@;
+				}
+			}
+		}
+
 # TEST: allow direct testing of the type matcher.
 		if ($dbg_type) {
 			if ($line =~ /^.\s*$Declare\s*$/) {
@@ -4109,7 +4133,7 @@ sub process {
 ## 		}
 
 #need space before brace following if, while, etc
-		if (($line =~ /\(.*\)\{/ && $line !~ /\($Type\){/) ||
+		if (($line =~ /\(.*\)\{/ && $line !~ /\($Type\)\{/) ||
 		    $line =~ /do\{/) {
 			if (ERROR("SPACING",
 				  "space required before the open brace '{'\n" . $herecurr) &&
@@ -4561,6 +4585,9 @@ sub process {
 			{
 			}
 
+			# Make asm volatile uses seem like a generic function
+			$dstat =~ s/\b_*asm_*\s+_*volatile_*\b/asm_volatile/g;
+
 			my $exceptions = qr{
 				$Declare|
 				module_param_named|